Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

Reading maketh a full man.

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.